Visitors to Phuket in Thailand should be aware to two serious incidents involving bag-snatchers and thieves this week. On Thursday June 21st, an Australian woman (a travel agent on an inspection trip) was stabbed to death by thieves who attempted to take her handbag as they rode past on a motorbike. Read article
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Dozens of the square stones used by Romans 2,000 years ago to pave roads are ending up in passengers hand luggage. Security staff screening bags at the Italian capital’s main airports at Fiumicino and Ciampino have reported a surge in findings as x-ray scanners pick up the objects when luggage is screened and they in […]
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Rebecca Blake, 29, and Conor McRedmond were arrested and held for five days accused of having sex outside marriage and being drunk in a public place which are both criminal offences in the Islamic state. It is believed Miss Blake, a recruitment consultant, met Mr McRedmond at an all-you-can-drink event at the The Irish Village […]
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U.K. police managed to smuggle a fake bomb into Olympic Park in a security test, overshadowing a special Cabinet meeting Monday at the park that marked 200 days until the Summer Games begin. U.K. police carrying out tests smuggled the device onto the main site. While the Olympic Delivery Authority declined to directly comment on […]
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Wildfires moved in on some of Colorado’s most popular summer tourist destinations over the weekend, demolishing nearly two dozen homes near Rocky Mountain National Park and emptying hotels and campgrounds at the base of Pikes Peak. Read Article
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A hand grenade thrown into a bar in the Kenyan tourist hub of Mombasa as clients watched a Euro 2012 football match Sunday killed one person and wounded several others, police said. Three of those wounded were in a critical condition, the head of the coastal province’s police, Aggrey Adoli, said. The attack came just […]
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Hundreds of Bolivian policemen, accompanied by their wives, have begun to plunder and destroy the headquarters of the intelligence of your institution and burning the files, close to the Palace of Government of La Paz, the capital of the country.Agents came out of the barracks unit tactics of police operations (UTOP), which already took by […]
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As summer holidays are nearing and people are making travel plans, the Arab Times received calls from some expatriates expressing concern over what they called a “trolley mafia” operating in the airport. When the Arab Times probed deeper, more people seemed to share this view. Past the immigration checkpoint in the airport, travelers use trolleys […]
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Bahrain’s security service has reportedly notified its counterparts in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Gulf states about some armed terrorist groups’ plans to launch sabotage operations in these countries in case Iran is attacked due to its nuclear file, reports Al-Qabas daily. Informed sources said the Bahraini intelligence report was prepared on the basis of confessions […]
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More than 80 people have been killed in a wave of communal violence in western Burma this month, a government official said. He said about 71 people had died in more than a week of clashes, in addition to 10 Muslims killed on June 3 by a Buddhist mob seeking revenge for the rape and […]
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